As some of you might know, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is less than a week away (February 25–28). This year, Ericsson is presenting a selection of projects from Ericsson Research with the ambition to illustrate our activities within [ Read more ]
In a recent attempt to explain, in a non-technical way, how the network and the integration with web-based services is changing the properties of our products and devices, I told someone that “the network is a habitat”. The network is a fundamental condition for many connected products to function well, so connectivity is almost like a natural resource which a population of products are dependent [ Read more ]
During the last years there has been a growing interest in using technology and ICT services to make people and organizations aware of alternative ways of looking upon their practices, and thereby inspire them to change behavior (a topic that my colleague Anna wrote about in a previous blog post). One of the main themes has been to support a development towards a more [ Read more ]
Here are some reflections after internal discussions that I think can be general enough to share. It has some hooks to a previous post about user experience in corporate research. The thing is that we seem to repeat almost the same discussion at the beginning of every project. It’s about goals and targets. In modern business management practice the necessity of quantifiable [ Read more ]
People need changing behavior for many reasons, i.e. to get a healthier lifestyle or make the world a better place and securing the future of our planet by acting in more sustainable and environmental-friendlier ways. Changes can be small and incremental but yet so important in the long run. Now when the end of the year is approaching it’s a good time to think of behavioral changes and maybe New Year’s [ Read more ]
This blog post is a summary of a 20 minute presentation covering some thoughts on user experience within the context of corporate research given at the 2012 Software Development Day (http://www.lindholmen.se/sv/presentation-2012). The following is an extract of some of the things that I talked about, consisting of the slides as well as (slightly edited) presentation notes. Please note [ Read more ]
In a recent blog post my colleague Marcus G highlighted the importance of making prototypes personalized and realistic. As an example of how to suspend disbelief he mentioned Wizard of Oz prototypes, where you have a human behind the scenes simulating the behavior of an assumed intelligent service. This method has traditionally been used [ Read more ]
During 2012 a group of people from the Mobile Life centre (www.mobile-life.org) and some of its partners (including yours truly) decided to put together a collection of writings as well as presentations of interesting projects that illustrate the importance of playfulness in all kinds of domains. As a consequence my thoughts on the role of playfulness [ Read more ]
Prototyping is all about making something that someone can experience, understand and respond to. Since it’s really difficult for people to imagine something when it is not in a real context or to evaluate a design without using it, we like to make stuff so it can be experienced for real.
High fidelity prototypes are very important since they give the possibility to test more complex interactions-, sequences [ Read more ]
I’m collecting thought-seeds for possible future work related to the user experience of products containing artificial intelligence. Here is some thinking-aloud after a little ad-hoc digging triggered by reading about The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), who got some attention in mainstream media this week, especially for the part of their research area concerning artificial general super-intelligence.
So. First: moral and ethics [ Read more ]